Posted on 09/18/2005 10:56:31 AM PDT by wagglebee
Contradicting his previous statements on the Iraq war, ex-President Bill Clinton said Sunday that there was no basis to attack the rogue nation when President Bush began the Iraq war two years ago.
"The administration . . . decided to launch this invasion virtually alone and before the U.N. inspections were completed - with no real urgency, no evidence that there was any weapons of mass destruction there," he complained to ABC's "This Week."
"I didn't not favor what was done," Clinton said.
"I thought that diverted our attention from [Afghanistan] and al Qaida and undermined the support that we might have had," he said. "But what's done is done."
Clinton's comments represented a marked shift from the position he took as president.
"We have to defend our future from these predators of the 21st century," he warned in a Feb. 1998 speech.
"And they will be all the more lethal if we allow them to build arsenals of nuclear, chemical and biological weapons and the missiles to deliver them. . . . There is no more clear example of this threat than Saddam Hussein's Iraq. His regime threatens the safety of his people, the stability of his region and the security of all the rest of us."
But the ex-president suggested Sunday that deposing Saddam by military force had been a mistake.
Asked if he thought the U.S. had a strategy for victory in Iraq, Clinton told "This Week": "Well, if we do it's not working right now."
If he were president, Clinton said he'd make stabilizing Afghanistan a bigger priority than securing Iraq.
"The only thing I would sacrifice [Iraq] to is if I felt we were going to lose in Afghanistan. We cannot lose in Afghanistan. We cannot let the Taliban come back. We cannot let Karzai fail. We cannot relax our efforts to try to keep undermining the al Qaida because that's still, by far, a bigger threat to our security."
Not that he gives a sh*t, but I've lost a lot of respect for Bush, Sr. the last couple of years. He's been parading Bill around like his new found son while Clinton spouts off this evil crap. If W was my son I'd want to smash the bastard in the head with a baseball bat. But that's just me...
I second that Amen. :)
Of course Little Georgie Stephanopolous asked him about his administration's Iraq policy ...you know, the statements that contradict what he is saying now.....
So we should call Hillary "Lurleen," after the former Governor of Alabama?
Who knows how many of the decisions of 1993-2001 were made by Hillary? Selection of the Attorney General? Attack on the Branch Davidian compound? Seizure of Elian Gonzalez? Pardoning of Puerto Rican terrorists?
Bill make succeed in making Hillary President, but if he tries to control her, he may suffer the fate of Nero's mother.
I certainly hope so!!!
I read this and thought it said "Catherization of Clinton", which might have been appropriate also.
Might have been brought on by the STD's (a couple even unknown to man) which have clogged the old boy's nether regions pipes.
Well BJ, there are 50 million formerly oppressed people who are glad W is President!! How's that legacy coming, still Stained???<p?Pray for W and Our Freedom Fighters
What's with these Dimocrats? Will somebody please:
1. Tell Clinton he's not president anymore.
2. Tell Kerry the election's over and he lost.
The Bushes are learning (too late) what happens to "Friends of Bill"
I don't know about that, but the reason a great number of Americans hear this sleazoid's words (lies) is because of the old lying media.
And that is why Hillary very well may be President of this ill country in 2008.
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The old established/liberal/socialist media is America's most ruthless, relentless, and destructive enemy.
At a bare minimum 41 needs to disconnect the Bush name from the Katrina fundraising site that they were advertising all day during the football games. I don't know who's brainfart it was to come up with BushClintonKatrinaFund.org, I will not send them a donation when I see that name associated with it. Nope, no way, uh-uh. It "wouldn't be prudent at this juncture"
KLINTOON:
SIT DOWN & SHUT UP! ! ! ! !
What basis was there to attack Bosnia?
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